From: Helmut Jarausch <jarausch@igpm.rwth-aachen.de>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] root partition lost - backup too old - please help
Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2010 20:29:11 +0200 (CEST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <tkrat.66d3999ed03dccf0@igpm.rwth-aachen.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201006142024.24031.volkerarmin@googlemail.com>
On 14 Jun, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
> On Montag 14 Juni 2010, Helmut Jarausch wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> due to a disk crash I've lost my root partition.
>> Unfortunately, the backup version is 4 weeks old.
>> But my /usr partition is up-to-date and I have
>> binary build-pkgs.
>> What's the fastest way to restore the portage-relevant
>> data on the root partition?
>>
>> Many thanks for a hint,
>> Helmut.
>
> if /var/db survived, you can grep for /bin /lib /sbin etc in /var/db and
> install the packages hit.
Thanks, but unfortunately /var was on the root partition.
So, I have to emerge -k --update @world @system .
Helmut.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-06-14 18:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-06-14 17:32 [gentoo-user] root partition lost - backup too old - please help Helmut Jarausch
2010-06-14 18:24 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2010-06-14 18:29 ` Helmut Jarausch [this message]
2010-06-14 19:19 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2010-06-14 19:40 ` Dru Kargin
2010-06-15 8:34 ` Helmut Jarausch
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